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Profilactic Launches - MySpace, YouTube, Digg Aggregated

One of the most prevalent ideas in the social networking space is that we need to aggregate all our online profiles in one place - with our identities spread across multiple sites, we want to bring them all together in one central location. Iceflake, Ziki, FindMeOn and many others are pursuing this same strategy. It's an idea called Digital Lifestyle Aggregation, named by PeopleAggregator creator Marc Canter.

Yet another new one launched in public beta last night after a few months of private testing - Profilactic provides a single profile page for MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, Digg, LinkedIn, iLike and the hundreds of other social services you've signed up for. All this stuff is brought together in a feed - the same format employed by long-forgotten SuprGlu back in 2005. Profilactic users can also have a network of friends, and a mashed-up feed of all their friends' content.

I'm not totally convinced that non-geeks are ready for this yet: besides YouTube and MySpace, how many of those services are recognized by the average person? That said, these sites might be a success if they can find some kind of viral element: enabling you to invite all your existing friends from those services you've added (could be spammy), or providing some type of widget. Ultimately, I would love for all the listed services to play along, and allow you to jump straight from one profile page to another in a sort of personal webring - that's highly unlikely to happen, of course.

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